Rabat - Morocco’s company of breweries (SBM), a subsidiary of the French group Castel for the production of beverages, has recently provided its Tit Mellil factory with a photovoltaic power plant designed and built by the Moroccan subsidiary of the French group GreenYellow.
Rabat – Morocco’s company of breweries (SBM), a subsidiary of the French group Castel for the production of beverages, has recently provided its Tit Mellil factory with a photovoltaic power plant designed and built by the Moroccan subsidiary of the French group GreenYellow.
According to the company, this installation, which is made up of 2,208 panels on a surface of 7,500 square meters, will cover more than 17 percent of the power consumption in SBM’s manufacturing process and will prevent the emission of nearly 700 tons of CO2 per year.
A grant of an undisclosed amount, but is said to be composed of several million MAD, has been allocated to this project, which is part of a global approach of the Castel group.
The Moroccan company said in a statement that SBM has become the first subsidiary of the group to carry out this project in Africa and plans to replicate this venture on other sites with other subsidiaries.
“I am particularly proud to have worked with all the employees of SBM, Groupe Castel, and our Green Yellow partners to implement this project in record time, which will provide our company with a renewable source of energy. […] I hope that we will open the way to other Pan-African projects,” Brahim Laroui, General Manager of SBM, said in a statement.
To carry out this project, SBM worked alongside GreenYellow, an energy management company specializing in energy services, energy efficiency solutions, and photovoltaic production.
Founded in 2007, GreenYellow, which has existed in Morocco since last year, has a total of 200 employees in France, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean region. It has already invested more than EUR 700 million worldwide to reduce the energy bills of local companies.
“We are honored to support the Société des Brasseries du Maroc in this major photovoltaic project. It demonstrates our deep conviction that economic performance and environmental responsibility must go hand in hand in the service of the competitiveness of Moroccan industrialists and the common good,” said Khalid Semmaoui, General Manager of GreenYellow Morocco.
